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Cold Wars are useful for capitalists. They can justify massive military expenditure; they can justify patriotism and squashing dissent; they can justify loyalty to the strong leader. The trade war Trump has started might sound good to his base, but is likely to hurt many of them, as Canada, Europe and China are smart when they retaliate, knowing fully well that they will harm his base.
So part of Trump’s goal is to fire up his base by being tough on the foreigners. Trump has decided that the US is in a power struggle with China for global dominance. He is not the first US capitalist politician to believe that. US strategists have talked about making a pivot to China for more than a decade now. Trump has decided to lurch toward China.

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Truman Delayed End of WWII to Demonstrate Nuclear Weapons

Assassins for Hire: US Citizens, Israelis, and Palestinians Kill for Money in Yemen

Contrary to Popular Belief, IMF Continues to Push Neoliberalism on Countries’ Agricultural Policies

Economics Prof. Lawrence King discusses the new PERI report on loan conditionalities that the IMF imposes when it provides loans and that interfere with food production and encroach on the sovereignty of states battling poverty

What Main Stream Corporate Media Won’t Cover: 20 Million Starving Yemenis Fueling the Saudi-US-NATO War Machine